A writer for Emmy Award-winning show “The Bear” was hauled off an MTA train in handcuffs for manspreading — which he tried to blame on an “old white lady” getting him arrested for the way he was sitting.
Alex O’Keefe — who has also been a speechwriter for US Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) — claimed in a fiery social media post that he was forced off a Connecticut-bound MetroNorth train last week because he was “the one black dude on the train” from Grand Central.
However, MTA cops told The Post on Monday that a conductor had “reported a passenger occupying two seats had refused to remove his feet from one of the seats.”
“The Bear” writer Alex O’Keefe was handcuffed and removed from an MTA train in Grand Central after someone complained about him sitting with his feet up on the seats. Instagram/dotgov
O’Keefe is a Writers Guild Award recipient for his work on “The Bear.” Stewart Cook / ShutterstockWhen officers boarded the train, O’Keefe still kept his legs stretched out with both feet on the opposite seat — and refused all requests to remove them, cops said, saying bodycam video showed it.
The belligerent screenwriter refused to get off and get the next train, “delaying service for several hundred other riders for six minutes,” the department said.
Unable to get him off willingly, officers “were forced to handcuff him to remove him from the train, giving him a summons for disorderly conduct.”
However, “the passenger involved was not placed under arrest at any time,” MTA cops said, stressing that he was able to get the next train.
O’Keefe, however, made the incident about race, blaming a so-called “Karen,” a derogatory term for white women.
“You’re gonna arrest the one black dude on the train, because this white woman said she didn’t like the way I was sitting on the train,” he was heard saying in a video he shared.
O’Keefe claimed that an old, white lady in a mask complained about him, causing him to get kicked off the train.
O’Keefe claimed that an old, white lady in a mask complained about him, causing him to get kicked off the train.
“They pulled me off the train and arrested me without even talking to the Karen who reported the one black person on the train,” he wrote, despite officials saying he was never under arrest.
“On the platform, the police detained me and interrogated me. Only black folks stayed nearby and recorded the arrest.
MTA officials said O’Keefe refused to comply with police to exit the train, resulting in him being handcuffed and removed.
“When I demanded a lawyer and reminded them they didn’t even take a statement from the woman who complained they eventually released me,” he said.
“This country is growing more psycho by the day.”
Video of the incident has since gone viral on TikTok and other social media, with users expressing outrage over the writer’s treatment.
